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Acute care |
Short term illness or injury |
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Chronic illness |
Long term or long-lasting illness |
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Functional nursing |
Assigned specific tasks to each member |
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Team nursing |
Nurse acts as a leader over people giving care |
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Primary nursing |
Rn gives care to residents |
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Hospice care |
For people with 6 months or less to live |
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What are ADL's? |
Personal daily care task such as bathing, changing clothes, and brushing teeth. |
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OBRA |
Law on minimum standards for nursing training and staff requirements |
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OSHA |
Is a government organization to promote safety |
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Ombudsman |
A legal advocate for residents in long term care facilities |
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JayCo |
A non profit organization that evaluates health care organizations to promote saftey and adequate care. |
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Resident |
Person living on long term care such as a nursing home. |
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Client |
Person recieving in home care |
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Patient |
Person recieving care at a hospital |
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Sandwich Generation |
Taking care of both their children and aging relatives |
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Adaptive Devices |
Special equipment to help with daily living |
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Chain of command |
Order of authority with in a facility |
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Assault |
A threat to harm a person |
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Battery |
Intentional touching of a person without consent |
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Ethics |
The knowledge of right and wrong |
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Criminal law |
Public law |
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Civil law |
Private law |
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Who identified residents bill of rights ? |
Obra |
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What is DNR? |
Do not resuscitate |
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What is the number one rule of malpractice? |
Do no harm |
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What is negligence? |
Actions or the failure to act or provide proper care for a person resulting in injury |
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What is active neglect? |
Purposeful failure to provide needed care , resulting in a physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person. |
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Passive neglect |
The unintentional failure to provide needed care resulting in physical, mental, or emotional harm to a person. |
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What is HIPPA? |
A federal law that sets standards for protecting the privacy of patients health information. |
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Scope of practice |
Defines the task that health care providers are legally permitted to perform as allowed by state or federal law. |
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What is a living will? |
A document that states the medical care a person wants , or does not want, in case he or she becomes unable to make those decisions. |
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What is advance directives? |
Legal documents that allow people to decide what kind of medical care they wish to have in the event they are unable to make those decisions themselves. |
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What is the first federal law to combat elder abuse? |
Elder justice act |
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What is a care conference? |
A meeting to share and gather information about a resident in order to develop a care plan. |
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What is a care plan? |
A plan for each resident created by the nurse that outlines the task that team members must perform to help the resident reach their goals of care. |
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What is nursing process? |
An organized method used by nurses to determine residents needs |
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What is a medical chart? |
Legal record of all medical care a resident, client , and a patient recieves. |
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Suffix |
A word part added to the end of a root. |
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Prefix |
A word part added to the beginning of a root |
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Objective information |
Factual information collected using the senses. |
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Sudjective information |
Information collected from residents, their family members, and their friends. |
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Who developed the braille system? |
Louis braille |
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Culture |
A set of learned beliefs, values, traditions, and behaviors shared by a social or ethnic group. |
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Confidentiality |
Where you keep residents information to yourself |
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Mds |
Minimum data set that has guidlines for assessing residents in long term care. |
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Critical thinking |
Making careful observations and reporting all potential problems |
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Incident |
An accident or unexpected event during the course of care. |
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Sentinel event |
An unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury |
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Code |
An emergent medical situation |
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Code status |
Formally written status of the type and scope of care that should be provided in the event of cardiac arrest or any other serious event. |
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What are the six stages of defense mechanism? |
Denial, Displacement, projection, rationalization, repression, and regression |
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What is disorientation? |
Confusion about person, place,or time; my be permanent or temporary. |
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What is confusion? |
The inability to think clearly and logically. |
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What is an airway? |
Where you breath from |
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What is an artificial airway? |
A tube placed in air way to help you breath. |
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What is ventilation? |
Exchange of air between the lungs and environment |
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What is dyspnea? |
Difficulty breathing |
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What is tracheostomy? |
A surgical opening in the neck leading into the trachea |
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What is a coma? |
State of unconsciousness in which a person is unable to respondeven to pain. |
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What is PVS? |
Persistent vegetative state, which means the person may have some level of consciousness. |
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What is MCS? |
Minimally conscious state, perrson exhibits signs of conciousness sjch as crying or laughing |
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Who is Abraham maslow and what fid he create? |
A psychologist and researcher of human behavior. Hierarchy of needs. |
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What is health? |
State of physical mental and social well-being |
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What is well ness? |
Successfully balancing things that happen in everyday life. |
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What are mores? |
Accepted traditional customs of a particular social group |
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What is developmental disabilities? |
A chronic condition that restricts physical and /or mental abilities. |
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What is cultural diversity? |
The variety of people living and working together in the world |
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What is religion? |
Set of beliefs concerning the cause and nature of the universe that often includes a moral code and usually involves specific ritual and practices |
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What is spirituality? |
Relating to the concerns of your soul |
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What is Agnostic? |
A person who belives that they do not know or cannot know if god exist |
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What is Athiest? |
A person who does not believe there is a god. |
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What is asexual? |
A person who does not experiance sexual attraction towards any gender |
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What is bisexual? |
A person who is attracted to both male and female |
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What is transgender? |
A person who identifies as a diffrent gender |
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What is heterosexual? |
A person who is attracted to the opposite sex |
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What age is infancy? |
Birth to 1 |
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What age is toddler? |
1-3 |
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What age is preschool? |
3-6 |
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What age is school-age? |
6-10 |
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What age is preadolescence? |
10-13 |
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What age is adolescence? |
13-19 |
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What age is young adult? |
19-40 |
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What age is middle adulthood? |
40-65 |
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What age is late adulthood? |
65 and older |
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What is stereotyping? |
A biased generalization about a group |
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What is ageism? |
Stereotyping or discriminating against the elderly |
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What is autism spectrum disorder? |
A development disability that causes problems with social skills and communication |
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What is fragile x syndrome? |
A genetic disordercausing inherited intelectual disability. |
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What is body mechanics? |
The way the parts of the body work togetherwhen a person moves |
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What is contractures? |
The permanent and painful shortening of a muscle, tendon, or ligament that can restrict movement |
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What is ergonomics ? |
the study of people's efficiency in their working environment |
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What is atrophy? |
Weaking or wasting away of muscles |
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What is Dysphagia? |
Difficulty swallowing |
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What is cyanosis? |
Blue or pale skin due to decreased oxygen in the blood |
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What are the two types of restraints ? |
Chemical and physical |
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What is PASS? |
Acronym for use of a fire extinguisher |
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What is RACE? |
Acronym for steps taken furing a fire |
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What is SDS? |
Safety data sheet, provides information on the safe use of hazards and chemicals |
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What is the degree of the angle a resident must be in when eating? |
45 degrees |
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What part of the body do you need to bend when lifting? |
Knees |
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When would you see and need to report infiltration of fluids? |
If it hurts or burns and if the area is wet. |
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How often must physical restraints be removed ? And what must happen? |
Every 2 hours and you need to move their body around. |
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What is CPR? |
Medical procedure used when a persons heart and lungs have stopped working |
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What is DKA? |
A life threatening complication of diabetes . |
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What is DNR? |
Do not resuscitate |
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What is first aid? |
Care given to an injured person by the first people to respond to an emergency |
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What is respiratory arrest? |
Stopping/ cessation of breathing |
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What is cardiac arrest? |
Sudden stopping/ cessation of the heart beat |
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What is emesis? |
Vomit |
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What is epistaxis? |
A nose bleed |
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What is MI? |
Myocardial infraction, a condition in which blood flow to the heart is blocked and muscle cells die , also known as a heart attack |
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What is hyperglycemia? |
High blood sugar |
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What is hypoglycemic? |
Low blood sugar |
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Who should never recieve an abdominal thrust? |
Pregnant women |
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What is shock? |
A condition that occurs when there is decreased blood flow to organs and tissues |
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What is syncope? |
Temporary loss of consciousness also called fainting |
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What is receptive aphasia? |
Difficulty understanding spokenor written words |
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What measures do you need to preform for an obstructed airway? |
Ask if choking, tell them your going to help, and perform adominal thrust |
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What are the stages of a burn and how do you treat a minor burn? |
Red , burn through 2 layers of skin, and skin turns white or black. For minor burn run under cold water. |
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How is the head positioned for. Nose bleed? |
Forward |
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What is the main goal of any caregiver during a seizure? |
To make sure the resident is safe |
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What is atonic seizure? |
The muscles suddenly lose strengthand can cause ppl to fall down. |
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What is tonic seizures? |
Muscle tone is greatly increased temporarily and then the body stiffens |
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What is clonic seizures? |
Consist of rhythmic jerking of the body |
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What is a CVA? |
Is a stroke |
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What is TIA? |
Mini strokes |
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What is FAST? |
Signs of a stroke, Face, Arms, Speech, and ,Time |
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What is code blue? |
Stopped heart or breathing |
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What's code red? |
Means fire |
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What are the 5 major vital signs ? |
Bp, temp, pulse, pain, and respirations |
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how many pounds equal 1 kg of weight ? |
2.2 kg equals 1 pound |
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What is the most important piece of a residents room that they need to know how to operate? |
Callbell |
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What is AMA and what is your responsibility when this happends? |
Against medical advice and report to charge nurse |
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What is halitosis? |
Bad breath |
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What is edentulous? |
Missing teeth ot toothless |
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What is an apical pulse? |
Heart area pulse |
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What is radial pulse? |
In wrist |
